Some times ago, because of the free shipping fees campaign, I decided to order a pair of rocking horse and a coat from Bodyline. The coat I'm talking is the H005 in size 2L, in white color. I really don't like white coat, but anyway, it was only 17€, so I decided to try it.

I forgot to take a picture, but please trust me, this coat in this particular white color looks exactly as a chemist lab coat (or at least, it's my opinion!). No way for me to wear it as that. This coat definitely needed to be dyed! I bought the first black dyeing powder I found at my local grocery store, and tried it!

The advantage of this gray color is that the white threads are not really visible (this is the biggest problem with dyeing clothes: most of the time the threads don't react to the dye and keep their initial color. In the end they are visible on the dyed cloth). I only have to replace the buttons by some black ones and the "white" pompon by some black ones and it will be perfect!

Hello! I'm sorry I hope it's not odd I'm asking this, but would you recommend dying it brown? Or do you think it doesn't pick up the color well enough for that? Because I bought the white version as well and I'm considering dying it either brown or beige. But I'm so worried it'll ruin the coat completely since there is no porper inbetween color for brown and white... Sorry! But I'd be grateful for your input. :x

I think that if you dye it in brown it can turn either brown or beige (in my opinion beige is a kind of light brown). In both cases the color could be close to what you expected, so I'd personnaly go for it! Of course, there is always a risk to ruin your coat but if you don't try you'll never know ^w^ (I've to admit that I was quite anxious when I did my coat!) And about how the coat pick the color, mine is grey because I dyed it with a shirt and a dress at the same time. That's why it turned grey. I assume that if I had only put the coat in the washing machine it would have turned in a darker grey!So if you put only your coat and your dyeing color it can work ^^ And if you don't obtain the right brown color, you can dye a second time!

If you decided to do it, don't hesitate to send me a picture, I'd very happy and curious to see how it turned ( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ

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